Time :
4th September : 6:30 pm
5th & 6th September : 10:30 am
Entry : Free
Event Details : Festival of Kabir in Film and Song.
A journey into the contemporary spaces touched by the music and poetry of the 15th century mystic weaver-poet, Kabir. The festival includes screening of documentary films; discussions; and concerts. Organised in collaboration with the Kabir Project, Ford Foundation, Ambedkar University, Aga Khan Trust for Culture and Aman trust.
Schedule :
4th September :
6:30 pm at Auditorium : Inaugural Concert by Prahlad Tipanya, one of the most compelling folk voices of Kabir in India today who combines singing and explanation of Kabir in the Malwi folk style of Madhya Pradesh.
5th September :
10:30 am at Auditorium : Chalo Hamara Des: Journeys with Kabir & Friends
(98 min; 2008; dvd; English subtitles)
Film by Shabnam Virmani who will introduce the screening and lead a discussion following with Prahlad Tipanya, Linda Hess, and Vidya Rao
A journey in search of the des (country) invoked in the poetry of Kabir. The film interweaves the stories of two people from very different countries, Prahlad Tipanya and North American scholar, Linda Hess. Where is Kabir’s country? The answer is elusive, as we journey through song and poem into these two lives, brought together in an unlikely friendship by the cross-cultural resonance of Kabir
2:00 pm at Auditorium :
Had-Anhad: Journeys with Ram and Kabir
(102 min; 2008; dvd; English subtitles)
Film by Shabnam Virmani who will introduce the screening and lead a discussion
Discussant: Dilip Simeon
Kabir living in 15th century north India, defied the boundaries between Hindu and Muslim. He had a Muslim name and upbringing, but his poetry repeatedly invokes the widely revered Hindu name for God – Ram. Who is Kabir’s Ram? The journeys through song and poem into the politics of religion, and finds myriad answers on both sides of the hostile border between India and Pakistan
5:00 pm at Auditorium :
Book Reading and Discussion
With Purushottam Agrawal on the book Akath Kahani Prem Ki: Kabir ki Kavita aur Unka Samay (Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi)
Discussant: Suman Keshari
7:00 pm at Fountain Lawns :
Concert by Mukhtiar Ali, Mirasi folk singer from Bikaner who blends Rajasthani folk idiom with refined classicism, singing the poetry of Kabir, Meera and other Sufi poets like Bulleh Shah
10:30 am at Auditorium : Chalo Hamara Des: Journeys with Kabir & Friends
(98 min; 2008; dvd; English subtitles)
Film by Shabnam Virmani who will introduce the screening and lead a discussion following with Prahlad Tipanya, Linda Hess, and Vidya Rao
A journey in search of the des (country) invoked in the poetry of Kabir. The film interweaves the stories of two people from very different countries, Prahlad Tipanya and North American scholar, Linda Hess. Where is Kabir’s country? The answer is elusive, as we journey through song and poem into these two lives, brought together in an unlikely friendship by the cross-cultural resonance of Kabir
2:00 pm at Auditorium :
Had-Anhad: Journeys with Ram and Kabir
(102 min; 2008; dvd; English subtitles)
Film by Shabnam Virmani who will introduce the screening and lead a discussion
Discussant: Dilip Simeon
Kabir living in 15th century north India, defied the boundaries between Hindu and Muslim. He had a Muslim name and upbringing, but his poetry repeatedly invokes the widely revered Hindu name for God – Ram. Who is Kabir’s Ram? The journeys through song and poem into the politics of religion, and finds myriad answers on both sides of the hostile border between India and Pakistan
5:00 pm at Auditorium :
Book Reading and Discussion
With Purushottam Agrawal on the book Akath Kahani Prem Ki: Kabir ki Kavita aur Unka Samay (Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi)
Discussant: Suman Keshari
7:00 pm at Fountain Lawns :
Concert by Mukhtiar Ali, Mirasi folk singer from Bikaner who blends Rajasthani folk idiom with refined classicism, singing the poetry of Kabir, Meera and other Sufi poets like Bulleh Shah
6th September :
10:30 am at Auditorium :
Kabira Khada Bazaar Mein: Journeys with Sacred & Secular Kabir
(94 min; 2008; dvd; English subtitles)
Film by Shabnam Virmani who will introduce the screening and lead a discussion following with Prahlad Tipanya; and Prushottam Agrawal
In 15th century north India, Kabir spoke his poems in the market place, his spirituality firmly grounded in the public square. 600 years after his time, Kabir is found in both spaces – sacred and secular. The film interweaves his deification by the Kabir Panth sect with his secular appropriation by the social activist group Eklavya. The story unfolds through the life of Prahlad Tipanya, a Dalit singer whose participation in both domains, begins to raise difficult questions for him about ritual and organised religion
2:00 pm at Auditorium :
(94 min; 2008; dvd; English subtitles)
Film by Shabnam Virmani who will introduce the screening and lead a discussion following with Prahlad Tipanya; and Prushottam Agrawal
In 15th century north India, Kabir spoke his poems in the market place, his spirituality firmly grounded in the public square. 600 years after his time, Kabir is found in both spaces – sacred and secular. The film interweaves his deification by the Kabir Panth sect with his secular appropriation by the social activist group Eklavya. The story unfolds through the life of Prahlad Tipanya, a Dalit singer whose participation in both domains, begins to raise difficult questions for him about ritual and organised religion
2:00 pm at Auditorium :
Koi Sunta Hai: Journeys with Kumar and Kabir
(96 min; 2008; dvd; English subtitles)
Film by Shabnam Virmani who will introduce the screening and lead a discussion following
Interweaving the folk music tradition of Kabir with the life and music of the late classical singer Pt Kumar Gandharva, this film reaches for that elusive sound, that jhini si awaaz, Kabir urges us to hear.
5:00 pm at Auditorium :
Poetry Recitation, Book Reading and Discussion
With Linda Hess on the book Singing Emptiness (Seagull Press, Kolkata)
7:00 pm at Fountain Lawns :
Concert by Farid Ayaz and party – Sufi Qawwals from Karachi, Pakistan
Farid Ayaz is an acclaimed qawwal who belongs to the 700-year-old “Qawwal bachon ka gharana” of Delhi. He sings in Urdu, Sindhi, Punjabi, Pushto, Hindi, Poorbi, Persian, Arabic and Turkish, intermingling the voice of Kabir with a range of Sufi poets including Jalaluddin Rumi, Sachal Sarmast, Zaheen Shah and others.
(96 min; 2008; dvd; English subtitles)
Film by Shabnam Virmani who will introduce the screening and lead a discussion following
Interweaving the folk music tradition of Kabir with the life and music of the late classical singer Pt Kumar Gandharva, this film reaches for that elusive sound, that jhini si awaaz, Kabir urges us to hear.
5:00 pm at Auditorium :
Poetry Recitation, Book Reading and Discussion
With Linda Hess on the book Singing Emptiness (Seagull Press, Kolkata)
7:00 pm at Fountain Lawns :
Concert by Farid Ayaz and party – Sufi Qawwals from Karachi, Pakistan
Farid Ayaz is an acclaimed qawwal who belongs to the 700-year-old “Qawwal bachon ka gharana” of Delhi. He sings in Urdu, Sindhi, Punjabi, Pushto, Hindi, Poorbi, Persian, Arabic and Turkish, intermingling the voice of Kabir with a range of Sufi poets including Jalaluddin Rumi, Sachal Sarmast, Zaheen Shah and others.
Conceptualised and presented by : Shabnam Virmani
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Place : Auditorium and Fountain Lawns, India International Centre ( IIC ), 40 Max Muller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
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Place : Auditorium and Fountain Lawns, India International Centre ( IIC ), 40 Max Muller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
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